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Dear readers, Contents

One need not look very far 2. Home for everyone:
to see that the trends of co-
housing and co-working Breaking bread and
have become a global communal Walls

phenomenon. Living
together and sharing Mohammad Ibrar, Sabka Ghar
resources is becoming a
more and more attractive 3. New initiative seeks to
option, particularly for millennials left behind by a grow community through
ruthless global economy. urban farming

And the private sector has been quick to catch on. Many Drew Gerber, Spokane
of those purporting to offer “communal” solutions for
housing and sharing are nothing more than large, profit- 5. Coming out communal:
driven companies seeking to capitalize, literally, on the Being queer at Virginia’s
growing trends. oldest commune

The 37-year-old Israeli-born CEO of WeWork, a Brittany Lewis, Twin Oaks
company that rents out office space in open-plan work
areas and calls it’s clients “community members,” is one 8. Dreaming of a shared
of America’s youngest billionaires. Earlier this year in an city: The Akko Educators’
interview with Haaretz, he described his company as Kibbutz

“making a capitalist kibbutz.”
Gabriel Freund, Akko
Recent controversies surrounding such “sharing
economy” giants as Uber and Airbnb have shown how 12. Urban Kibbutzim: A
effectively capitalist modes of exploitation and growing movement

competition can disguise themselves as communal and Anton Marks, Nazareth Il it
collaborative initiatives.
14. From socialism to the
Driven by profit, companies seeking to tap into the
communal trend have simply developed more suburbs: The life of a fading
sophisticated tools for playing the market while doing community

nothing to combat the conditions that entrench Amelia Schonbek, Westchester
inequality and injustice.

19. Does living together
Meanwhile, as these mega-phenomena develop, so do make us happier?

the instances of true human communities seeking out a Tobin Resnor, Alberta
better reality. In their modest, authentic attempts to heal,
liberate, repair and unite, they are perhaps not always as 20. Communal housing and
easy to find. But that only makes it more important to women’s liberation: A
find them.
forgotten history

Mol y Mckew, Melbourne
In this winter’s edition of C.A.L.L we seek to bring you
stories of intentional communities, past and present, that 22. Co-housing for older
challenge convention, counter oppression, and create women, by older women

new avenues for all societies and all people, no matter
who they are, to create a better, freer, happier life.
Heather Saul, London

Gabriel Freund, Editor
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